Help… Tiger Server is creating it’s own mount points

[kray]

I have a 10.4.3 Smachine set up so that there should be 3 mount points in /Volumes:

disk0
disk1
disk2

However, in terminal, I see:

disk0@ disk2/ home1-1/ home1-3/ reich_lab-1/
disk1/ home1/ home1-2/ reich_lab/

The real home1 is in disk1, while the real reich_lab is in /Volumes/disk2/data2/.

What are these -1, -2, and so on mount points that have appeared on their own? How can I safely remove them. The mount points in question are “Shared” mount points. But not all shared mount points are behaving in this manner

Any ideas as to what is going on? And how can I prevent it?

[kray]

[QUOTE BY= MacTroll]Check /Volumes see if this is the case.[/QUOTE]

The only thing that should be in /Volumes is disk0 disk1 and disk2

the home1 home1-1 home1-2 and home1-3 are getting created by them selves. So there are no local folders in /Volumes with the same names as the drives (mount points?). I do have a local folder named home1, but it’s absolute path is /Volumes/disk1/home1.

I tried using rm to remove /Volumes/home1, but it started removing files in /Volumes/disk1/home1. Now I’m afraid to rm anything…

[kray]

truffula:~ kwythers$ ls -al /Volumes
total 24
drwxrwxrwt 11 root admin 374 Jan 6 12:37 .
drwxrwxr-t 35 root admin 1292 Jan 6 08:13 ..
-rw-rw-rw- 1 kwythers admin 6148 Jan 3 08:44 .DS_Store
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Jan 6 08:14 disk0 -> /
drwxr-xr-x 9 kwythers staff 340 Jan 3 09:30 disk1
drwxr-xr-x 17 kwythers staff 612 Jan 6 12:36 disk2
drwxr-xr-x 7 admin staff 264 Oct 13 14:59 home1
drwxr-xr-x 7 admin staff 264 Oct 13 14:59 home1-1
drwxr-xr-x 7 admin staff 264 Oct 13 14:59 home1-2
drwxr-xr-x 7 admin staff 264 Oct 13 14:59 home1-3
drwxr-xr-x 7 admin staff 264 Oct 13 14:59 home1-4

[kray]

beats the heck out of me…. I just sshed into my machine and the extra disks are gone.

truffula:/Volumes kwythers$ ls -la
total 24
drwxrwxrwt 6 root admin 204 Jan 6 15:25 .
drwxrwxr-t 34 root admin 1258 Jan 6 15:25 ..
-rw-rw-rw- 1 kwythers admin 6148 Jan 3 08:44 .DS_Store
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Jan 6 08:14 disk0 -> /
drwxr-xr-x 9 kwythers staff 340 Jan 3 09:30 disk1
drwxr-xr-x 17 kwythers staff 612 Jan 6 15:27 disk2

truffula:/Volumes kwythers$ df
Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk1s9 490194432 22815856 466866576 5% /
devfs 219 219 0 100% /dev
fdesc 2 2 0 100% /dev
1024 1024 0 100% /.vol
automount -nsl [220] 0 0 0 100% /Network
automount -fstab [224] 0 0 0 100% /automount/Servers
automount -static [224] 0 0 0 100% /automount/static
/dev/disk0s9 490194432 154121472 336072960 31% /Volumes/disk1
/dev/disk3s6 1953415920 584552000 1368863920 30% /Volumes/disk2
truffula:/Volumes kwythers$

I’ll log in locally when I can back over there and see if that makes a diifference. I am very confused…

[kray]

[QUOTE BY= MacTroll] Hmmm, and to correlate to the drives:

“df”
[/QUOTE]

The plot thickens… This moringing I logged into the server through portable home account via my laptop. One again all looked fine. An ‘ls -l’ on /Volumes showed:

truffula:/Volumes kwythers$ ls -l
total 8
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Jan 6 08:14 disk0 -> /
drwxr-xr-x 9 kwythers staff 340 Jan 3 09:30 disk1
drwxr-xr-x 17 kwythers staff 612 Jan 6 15:27 disk2

Then I logged out of the account on my laptop and logged into to the server locally. An ‘ls -l’ on the local server shows:

truffula:/Volumes kwythers$ ls -l
total 8
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 1 Jan 6 08:14 disk0 -> /
drwxr-xr-x 9 kwythers staff 340 Jan 3 09:30 disk1
drwxr-xr-x 17 kwythers staff 612 Jan 6 15:27 disk2
drwxr-xr-x 7 admin staff 264 Oct 13 14:59 home1
drwxr-xr-x 7 admin staff 264 Oct 13 14:59 home1-1
drwxr-xr-x 7 admin staff 264 Oct 13 14:59 home1-2
drwxr-xr-x 7 admin staff 264 Oct 13 14:59 home1-3
drwxr-xr-x 7 admin staff 264 Oct 13 14:59 home1-4
drwxr-x— + 10 admin reichlab 296 Jan 5 13:47 reich_lab

and a ‘df’ shows:

truffula:/Volumes kwythers$ df
Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/disk1s9 490194432 22962720 466719712 5% /
devfs 219 219 0 100% /dev
fdesc 2 2 0 100% /dev
1024 1024 0 100% /.vol
automount -nsl [220] 0 0 0 100% /Network
automount -fstab [224] 0 0 0 100% /automount/Servers
automount -static [224] 0 0 0 100% /automount/static
/dev/disk0s9 490194432 154126720 336067712 31% /Volumes/disk1
/dev/disk3s6 1953415920 584552000 1368863920 30% /Volumes/disk2
afp_002Usf0Cx2Ug001Eic06SdO0-1.2c00000c 490194432 154126720 336067712 31% /Volumes/home1
afp_002Usf0Cx2Ug001Eic06SdO0-1.2c00000d 490194432 154126720 336067712 31% /Volumes/home1-1
afp_002Usf0Cx2Ug001Eic06SdO0-1.2c00000e 490194432 154126720 336067712 31% /Volumes/home1-2
afp_002Usf0Cx2Ug001Eic06SdO0-1.2c00000f 1953415920 584552000 1368863920 30% /Volumes/reich_lab
afp_002Usf0Cx2Ug001Eic06SdO0-1.2c000010 490194432 154126720 336067712 31% /Volumes/home1-3
afp_002Usf0Cx2Ug001Eic06SdO0-1.2c000011 490194432 154126720 336067712 31% /Volumes/home1-4

This issue only seems to appear when I log into the sever locally as a user with a portable home directory.

[kray]

I don’t quite follow…

I do have the following Share Points specified:

Public
home1
reich_lab
home2
leaf_train_working

but I thing your are talking about something different. I looked in Workgroup Manager -> Preferences -> Login Items. I see that I have home1 set up there (as a login item) with the preferences checked on:

Hide
Mount item with user’s name and password
Add network home share point
User may add and remove additional items
User may press shift to keep items from opening
Merge with user’s items

However, unless I missed something in the documentation (which is always possible), I think these are required for an account set up as a portable home.

In addition I am looking at Server Admin -> Server -> AFP -> Connections, and I see myself loged in with 6 connections. Do I assume right that those represent the following volumes?

/Volumes/disk1/home1 (the correct and acutal home1)
/Volumes/home1
/Volumes/home1-1
/Volumes/home1-2
/Volumes/home1-3
/Volumes/home1-4

I will try removing home1 as a log in item and see if the portable home directory thing still works…

[kray]

I think I’m homing in (no pun intended) on the problem. I looked in System Preferences (on both the laptop and the Server) and I see (on the laptop) 5 login items checked (one of which is afp://Servername/home1), the rest of them are not readable and system preferences is not responding. It is not hung (according to top or Activity monitor), but it is not letting me select and remove those login items.

Is there a way to get at login items from the command line? i.e. where are they kept?

Thanks, I think we are close…

[kray]

You were righ mactroll. It was login items. I ended up deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist, as soon as it was gone (and the five extra mount points that it contained references to), the odd volumes in /Volumes dissapeared and have not retured. Thanks for the assist.

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